Over There: Part 2

Fringe Over There: Part 2
Season 2, Episode 22

Air date	May 20, 2010
Written by	Jeff Pinkner Akiva Goldsman J.H. Wyman
Directed by	Akiva Goldsman
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"Over There: Part 2" is the twenty-second episode of the second season of Fringe.

Synopsis

Sacrifices will be made and both universes may never be the same again after Walter and Olivia visit the "other side."

Plot

Walternate is informed of the original Walter Bishop's presence in the hospital, but William Bell

Over there part 2 fringe john noble and leonard nimoy — William Bell and Walter Bishop.

and Olivia Dunham manage to rescue him first. Walternate lies to Peter about the machine's real purpose, claiming that it can help heal the other world. Fauxlivia and Charlie Francis (Alternate Universe) are unable to capture Walter, but Fauxlivia sees a surveillance shot of Olivia and Walter and goes to confront Walternate.

Peter meets Fauxlivia, who drives him to his new apartment. Walter and Bell go to Harvard to collect equipment needed to return home and Walter reveals his intense dislike for him, considering him a selfish war profiteer while he was locked away for 17 years and is still broken inside. Bell reveals the parallel universe equivalent of himself died in a car accident as a young man. Olivia confronts Fauxlivia, who recognizes that Olivia has feelings for Peter. After a fight Olivia knocks Fauxlivia unconscious and poses as her. Peter discovers the machine is symbiotic and needs a particular human to control it: him. Olivia and an oblivious Alt-Charlie go to collect Peter to move him for his own safety. Olivia knocks out Alt-Charlie and reveals herself to Peter, as well as filling him in on the machine's real purpose and Walternate's intentions. Peter states he doesn't belong in the other world or Olivia's world. Olivia reveals her

romantic feelings for Peter (they kiss), making him decide to leave with her. They race to meet up with Walter and Bell at the Opera House, but Fauxlivia and a team of Fringe Commandos catch up with them there. Bell and Olivia hold off the assault while Peter and Walter set up the dimensional device to return home. Without a fuel source to power the device, Bell sacrifices himself to create a nuclear reaction using his body's unstable molecular state. Before dying he reveals that he took Walter's memories away at his own request, referring to what Walter was becoming. Walter tells Bell that he was wrong about him and forgives him.

Olivia, Walter, and Peter return home successfully. Peter tells Walter he'll never understand him, but Walter traveled into another universe twice to save him, which counts for something, so Peter forgives him. Olivia is revealed to actually be Fauxlivia infiltrating our side when she arrives at a typewriter communication station to await orders. The Olivia from our world is then seen in a military detention center on the Other Side. Walternate visits her, cruelly staring at her without speaking before leaving her in the dark isolation of solitary confinement.

Notable Quotes

Olivia: Peter... you don't belong here.
Peter: No, I don't belong here. But I don't belong there, either.
Olivia: Yes, you do. I have thought of a hundred reasons... why you should come back. To--to fight the shapeshifters, to take care of Walter, to--to save the world. But in the end... you have to come back. Because you belong with me.

Walter: Peter... you are back now, aren't you? You're--you're not leaving again?
Peter: I'm trying to see this your way, Walter. I can't. But... you did cross universes twice to save my life. So that's gotta count for something, right?
Walter: Thank you, Peter. (Peter leaves) My son.

Olivia: Walter, can you walk?
Walter: I can dance if you like. They have absolutely fabulous drugs here, Olivia.

Fauxlivia: What's she like?
Peter: Who?
Fauxlivia: Me.
Peter: She's a lot like you. Darker in the eyes, maybe. She's always trying to make up for something. Right some imaginary wrong. Haunted, I guess. (pauses) Maybe she's nothing like you at all.

Notes

September can be seen in the background inside the KGC when Olivia Dunham, Walter Bishop and William Bell discuss their next move.
Although credited, Blair Brown (Nina Sharp) does not appear in this episode.